How to translate blog to different languages « There is nothing impossible, coz the the word itself seems to deny it !

There might be many users on your site/blog whose native language is not English.

Guess we can solve the problem to some extent at least for 9 different
languages so far.

There is a tool that I discovered some time back Google Translate
that is something that you won’t appreciate so much beyond an extent
until you click little flags in Translate box in sidebar on right.

You can easily get these on your web sites or blogs for your
reader/visitors.
If you are a WordPress.com user there is a bit of problem that you cannot
translate the page directly user is currently on but users will have to
come all through your main blog to the entry they are interested in if
the post is not on the main page, since JavaScript is not yet supported
on wordpress.com.

1. WordPress.com

Lorelle is using
nice images to forward some users to their own languages but as

A personal choice I love to use country flag image since people can
easily recognize them if you place them at right position.
If you want Just paste the following code in your Text Widget and replace
address with your blog it would be all done.
Beware users will be directed to the translated main web address you provided.
You will have to upload images you want to use and replace URL at appropriate
places.

Sorry for the bad post of the code
there is already seems to be some discussions going on here

<table>
<tbody><tr>
<td>
<li><a
href=”http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http://Yourblog.wordpress.com&langpair=en%7Cfr&hl=fr&ie=UTF-8&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools”><img
src=”http://Yourblog.files.wordpress.com/2006/07/french.jpg” alt=”Translate
Blog into French” /></a></li>
</td>
<td>
<li><a
href=”http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http://Yourblog.wordpress.com&langpair=en%7Cde&hl=de&ie=UTF-8&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools”><img
src=”http://Yourblog.files.wordpress.com/2006/07/german.jpg” alt=”Tanslate Blog
into German” /></a></li>
</td>
<td>
<li><a
href=”http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http://Yourblog.wordpress.com&langpair=en%7Cit&hl=it&ie=UTF-8&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools”><img
src=”http://Yourblog.files.wordpress.com/2006/07/italian.jpg” alt=”Translate
Blog into Italian” /></a></li>
</td>
<td>
<li><a
href=”http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http:/Yourblog.wordpress.com&langpair=en%7Cpt&hl=pt&ie=UTF-8&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools”><img
src=”http://Yourblog.files.wordpress.com/2006/07/portuguese.jpg” alt=”Translate
Blog into Portugese” /></a></li>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>

2. Web SItes / blogs that support JavaScript

If you can use JavaScript then users will see the same translated page.
See an example here .
Use the code below or see more detailed instructions on Digital Inspiration
by Amit Agarwal he is simply too good in most of his posts.

<!–

document.write (”<input name=’u’ value=’”+location.href+”‘ type=’hidden’
/>”)

//–>

</script>

</noscript>
<input name=”langpair” value=”” type=”hidden”> <input
name=”langpair” value=”en|fr” title=”French”
src=”french.jpg”
onclick=”this.form.langpair.value=this.value” height=”20″ type=”image”
width=”30″> </td>
<td width=”20″><input name=”langpair” value=”en|de”
title=”German” src=”german.jpg”
onclick=”this.form.langpair.value=this.value” height=”20″ type=”image”
width=”30″> </td>
<td width=”20″><input name=”langpair” value=”en|it”
title=”Italian” src=”italian.jpg”
onclick=”this.form.langpair.value=this.value” height=”20″ type=”image”
width=”30″> </td>
<td width=”20″><input name=”langpair” value=”en|pt”
title=”Portuguese” src=”portuguese.jpg”
onclick=”this.form.langpair.value=this.value” height=”20″ type=”image”
width=”30″> </td>
<td width=”20″><input name=”langpair” value=”en|es”
title=”Spanish” src=”spanish.jpg”
onclick=”this.form.langpair.value=this.value” height=”20″ type=”image”
width=”30″> </td>
<td width=”20″><input name=”langpair” value=”en|ja”
title=”Japanese”
src=”japanese.jpg”
onclick=”this.form.langpair.value=this.value” height=”20″ type=”image”
width=”30″> </td>
<td width=”20″><input name=”langpair” value=”en|ko”
title=”Korean”
src=”korean.jpg”
onclick=”this.form.langpair.value=this.value” height=”20″ type=”image”
width=”30″> </td>
<td width=”20″><input name=”langpair” value=”en|zh-CN”
title=”Chinese
Simplified” src=”chinese.jpg”
onclick=”this.form.langpair.value=this.value” height=”20″ type=”image”
width=”30″></td>
</form>
</tr>
</table>
What is more important is real use of such a function at your
blog/site. It seems to be a bit of gizmo until we know that people
are using this and how much they find it useful, if you have such
information please comment.